If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a million times: I hate fighting speedsters. Sure, I can chase after them at the speed of light, but can I react that fast? No way. Her name was Super Sonic Woman and her taste for nostalgia was just as obvious in her costume: v-striped silver one [...]

Even under three layers of clothing I shivered. Northern winters were never kind, especially to people who were living rough. The days weren’t so bad, especially if you were resourceful enough to not look homeless, at least then you could find a public area with heating, but the nights were frigid and unforgiving and scarce [...]

I had to get away. Vortex wasn’t going to waste any time. If I didn’t evade his grasp then he could easily… suddenly I lost my train of thought. What was I supposed to be doing? Something was very, very wrong. Actually a lot of things were very, very wrong. For some reason my clothes [...]

“Call it what it is,” she roared. “This is outright discrimination, and if you think we’re going to stand for it you’ve got another thing coming!” Assistant Principal Ferguson urged her to be calm, but that was probably because he was new. Little did he realize that he’d started a war and that telling the [...]

Sitting outside the principal’s office I waited for the final word. It should have never come to this, but there we were with me kicking my heels impatiently for my fate to be sealed. While I wished it could have ended some other way I also knew it was inevitable. This was a long time [...]

“I don’t believe it,” someone groaned. “Asleep for her own party. Can you believe that?” “Portal Man or whatever his name is must’ve really given her a work out,” another responded. Neither voice belonged to people I knew. I pried my eyes open, momentarily forgetting that I was being held upright within a wheel of [...]

The whole night was a blur. From the ambulance ride to the racing hospital orderlies all around me I could barely keep my focus. All I wanted was to fall asleep, but a voice kept telling me not to. “Wake up, Justin,” the doctor told me sharply. “You’ve got a concussion. You need to stay [...]

Funny the way things turn out sometimes. One minute you’re dreading a long, boring day of one class after the other, the next you’re encased within an impenetrable carbon shell on the verge of being buried alive. I cursed: how did I get myself into this!? Of course I already knew the answer to that. [...]